Maurolycus and Barocius Home

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Maurolycus and Barocius are ancient craters dating back some 3,900 million years, situated in the rugged highlands of the southern hemisphere.  Maurolycus is 117 Km in diameter and has very steep walls especially to the east.  It has a relatively flat floor with several small craters and an offset mountain to the north.  Barocius is 85 Km in diameter and has walls rising to 3,500 metres, punctured by Barocius B in the north-west.
The picture was taken with a ToUcam attached to my ETX125 with a X2 lens attached on 4th September 2004, when the Moon was 19.9 days old.
Date and Time 4th September 2004 04:32 UT
Camera ToUcam 740K
Telescope ETX125 with X2 lens
Capture K3CCDTools. High gamma, 1/50", 20% gain, 324 frames
Processing Registax. 190 frames stacked. Wavelet 1,2 = 10 
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